#could

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#even #generation #greatest #greatest thing #immigrant

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #become #been #believe #black

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#back #black #contribution #could #created

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#atom bomb #bomb #consider #could #country

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#because #clothes #communicating #could #i

I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#ask #back #bored #contract #could

In a way, I was spoon-fed, if you will, a career. It was fully manufactured by a studio that believed that they could put me on their posters and turn me into their bottle of Coca-Cola, their product. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#bottle #career #coca-cola #could #fully

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing. ↗

— Ang Lee

#could #disappointing #drama #i #life

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story. ↗

— Ang Lee

#close #could #couple #first #function

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash. ↗

— Brenda Lee

#awful #could #crash #everything #except